11/05/2019CITY TO LAUNCH ADVISORY GROUP FOR LES RESILIENCY PLAN FOLLOWING CRITICISMCrains: Mayor Bill de Blasio will create an advisory group to answer concerns about his administration's billion-dollar …
10/29/2019SEVEN YEARS AFTER SANDY, HOW CITIES ARE PREPARING FOR FUTURE STORMSTrust for Public Land: Hurricane Sandy roared over the New York City metro area seven years ago this week. Few who witnessed the storm’…
10/28/2019HOW CITIES ARE REBUILDING TO BE MORE RESILIENT TO NATURAL DISASTERSPBS NewsHour: Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina, the neighborhood of Gentilly, New Orleans, is still in the process of rebuilding.…
10/27/2019ENGAGING STATEN ISLAND STUDENTS WITH MARITIME CURRICULUMStaten Island Advance: While a new dedicated maritime-themed school is no longer being pursued on Staten Island, several schools in the boro…
10/18/2019HERE’S THE WEATHER REPORT….The Jeresulem Post: Climate change is with us, whether we wish it or not. The entire globe is warming up accompanied by extreme weather…
10/17/2019NYC WILL REMAKE THE EAST RIVER WATERFRONT TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE. IT MAY NOT BE ENOUGHCurbed: All along the coast of New York City, hard decisions are being made about how to address the inevitability of sea level ri…
10/11/2019NEW EAST RIVER PARK SHOULD RISE EVEN HIGHER, EXPERT SAYSPatch: The massive storm protection project proposed for East River Park needs to be even taller than current plans call for, according…
10/11/2019COMPLETED REPORT ANNOUNCED FOLLOWING EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCY PROJECT CONSULTANT REVIEW6sqft: Borough President Gale A. Brewer and Council Member Carlina Rivera announced Thursday the completed report by independent consul…
10/10/2019VOTE SET FOR LATEST PLAN FOR EAST RIVER FLOOD PROTECTIONReal Estate Weekly: Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced a plan for the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) project that will phase the r…
10/08/2019OYSTER REEFS ARE MAKING A COMEBACK–BY PROTECTING COASTS FROM THE RAVAGES OF CLIMATE CHANGECNBC: They are salty, sumptuous and often served opulently on ice. They are also now on the front lines in the fight to protect coastal…
10/04/2019HOBOKEN BREAKS GROUND ON NORTHWEST RESILIENCY PARKNJ.com: Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla, former Mayor Dawn Zimmer and local officials broke ground on the Northwest Resiliency Park, Hoboken’…
10/04/2019BIG’S MANHATTAN FLOOD WALL RESILIENCY PROJECT ADVANCESArchitects News: New York City’s $1.45 billion East Side Coastal Resiliency project (ESCR) has been approved by the New York City Plann…
10/03/2019TWO BRIDGES FLOOD PROTECTIONS WILL RAISE EAST RIVER ESPLANADE UP TO TWO FEETCurbed: The Two Bridges area is Manhattan’s most vulnerable to flooding, sitting some seven feet above sea level. Flood barriers and ne…
10/03/2019REVISED EAST RIVER FLOOD PROTECTION PLANS MET WITH MORE LOCAL SKEPTICISMThe Low Down: In response to neighborhood opposition to the city’s plans for a flood barrier in East River Park, the de Blasio administ…
10/03/2019PLAN TO EXTEND LOWER MANHATTAN TO EAST RIVER MOVES ONE STEP FURTHERCrains NY Business: The city’s plan to extend a barrier between nearly one mile of Lower Manhattan’s coastline and the East River …
10/03/2019CITY FIGHTS SEA RISE WITH PLATFORMS, FLOOD WALLS IN TWO BRIDGESThe Patch: Flood barriers will flip up and roll out in the Two Bridges neighborhood by 2024 after three years of feasibility and coasta…